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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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1988
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ366441 |
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Table of Contents:
- Serendipity and Holism: The Beauty of OPACs. Rice, James Academic Libraries Card Catalogs Computer Software Higher Education Information Retrieval Online Catalogs User Satisfaction (Information) Identifies factors which may account for user dissatisfaction with online public access catalogs (OPACs) and discusses some advantages of OPACs over card catalogs: (1) design for subject searching; (2) flexibility; (3) browsing capability; (4) precision; (5) availability of status information; and (6) development of microcomputer software to interface with OPACs. (10 references) (MES)